Lymm Quarry: Anisian, United Kingdom
collected by J. Robson, J. Hawkshaw 1841

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835
King et al. 2005
MANCH LL9957; slab contains both C. barthii ("Beasley's A1") and C. storetonense ("Beasley's A2") specimens [Manchester Museum, UK]
Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835
"Cheirotherium"
    = cf. Chirotherium storetonense Morton 1863
Beasley 1904
"Lymm form" "A 2"
Chirotherium vorbachi Kirchner 1927
King et al. 2005
BMNH 21831 [Natural History Museum, London, UK]
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Cheshire
Coordinates: 53.4° North, 2.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.2° North, 10.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:153 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Middle Triassic
Stage: Anisian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 2
Key time interval: Anisian
Age range of interval: 247.2 - 242 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mercia Mudstone Formation:Tarporley Siltstone Member:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "New Red Sandstone"; tracks "on nearly all the beds of sandstones". Layers are the "Keuper Waterstones"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. Robson, J. Hawkshaw Collection dates:1841
Metadata
Also known as:Lymn
Database number:52505
Authorizer:M. Carrano, A. Dunhill Enterer:M. Carrano, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-09 13:54:40 Last modified:2022-10-13 13:33:38
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-09 13:54:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
55585. J. Hawkshaw. 1843. Notice of fossil footsteps in the New Red Sandstone quarry at Lymm, in Cheshire. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 12:56-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

53921 H. C. Beasley. 1904. Report on footprints from the Trias—Part I. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 73:219-230 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63086 H. Girard. 1846. Über die Fährten vorweltlicher Thiere im Sandstein, insbesondere von Chirotherium [On the tracks of prehistoric animals in sandstone, especially Chirotherium]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1846:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
57076 R. Harkness. 1850. On the position of the impressions of footsteps in the Bunter Sandstone of Dumfries-shire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 2 6(33):203-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
67305 M. J. King, W. A. S. Sarjeant, D. B. Thompson and G. Tresise. 2005. A Revised Systematic Ichnotaxonomy and Review of the Vertebrate Footprint Ichnofamily Chirotheriidae from the British Triassic. Ichnos 12(4):241-299 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
82858 W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1974. A history and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 16:265-378 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70883 G. Tresise. 1993. Triassic footprints from Lymm quarry, Cheshire in the collections of Warrington Museum. Archives of Natural History 20(3):307-332 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68227 T. C. Winkler. 1886. Histoire de l’Ichnologie. Étude Ichnologique sur les Empreintes de Pas d’Animaux Fossiles, Suivie de la Description des Plaques à Impressions d’Animaux qui se Trouvent au Musée Teyler [History of Ichnology. Ichnological Study of Fossil Animal Footprints, Followed by the Description of Slabs with Animal Impressions found in Teyler’s Museum] iv-200 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]